Ebola intensifies worldwide travel fears, precautions

Ebola could spread globally if the world does not respond to the epidemic in Africa, Barack Obama has warned. The President also said US monitoring of ebola must be “much more aggressive”, including health-care “SWAT teams” to help inexperienced local hospitals cope with any new case on U.S. soil. Airports in Britain, Canada and the United States have introduced stepped-up screening of travelers arriving from West Africa, where the disease has ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. But the European Union stopped short of recommending full continent-wide screening, suggesting instead that member states give medical information at airports to travelers from Ebola-hit countries.

Individuals who are determined to be at any potential risk will be actively monitored.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statement

A second health care worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola, and US health officials are seeking 132 people who flew on a plane with the Texas nurse on the day before she came down with symptoms of Ebola. US House Speaker John Boehner thinks Obama should “absolutely consider” a temporary ban on travel to the United States from countries suffering an outbreak of the Ebola virus.

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